Spring Conference 96
Nagoya University, Japan
The Japan Branch of the Dickens Fellowship will hold a conference at Symposion Hall, Toyoda Auditorium, Nagoya University, Japan on 1 June 1996.
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For further details on the route to the Hall refer to the map drawn by Mr. Hideto Kasuya, Dept. Applied Physics.
Papers to be read:
- Yasuki Kihara (Fukui University),
"The Prison in David Copperfield".
--Analyzes aspects of the prison-like spaces which, it seems, structure the narrative of David Copperfield. Disciplinary power, in the Foucaultian sense, permeates the narrative world, and the characters live in a disciplinary society composed of many prison-like spaces.
- Toru Sasaki (Kyoto University),
"Dickens in Confusion?: Discrepancies in the Denouement of Martin Chuzzlewit"
--Points out some inconsistencies in the chronology of the action in Chapters 49-52, which will corroborate the assumption that Dickens was then not working with careful planning.
Lecture:
- Professor Paul Snowden (Waseda University),
Title: "DICKENS AND DRINKING".
Some of the drinks that Dickens's characters imbibe at inns and alehouses
are no longer to be had in modern pubs. Yet others have the same name as
modern drinks, but seem from the context to be different in some way. From
a selection of references to alcoholic beverages in several of Dickens's
works, a sketch will be made of the drinking habits of the time.
Contact Details:
Mitsuharu Matsuoka,
E-mail: matsuoka@lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Snail-mail: Faculty of Language and Culture, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-01, Japan
Voice: (+81) 052-789-4864
FAX: (+81) 052-789-4873
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